Deputies with the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office uncovered a marijuana grow in McKinleyville on Friday after responding to a welfare check on a potentially malnourished horse earlier this month.

According to a sheriff's office press release, a livestock deputy responded to a residence on the 2500 block of Bolier Avenue in McKinleyville Jan. 8 to check on a "reported skinny horse." After meeting with the owner, the deputy determined that the horse was not neglected, but detected a "strong odor of growing marijuana" coming from the residence.

On Friday, at about 11 a.m., deputies served a search warrant on the property, locating 195 growing marijuana plants ranging from 12 feet to 14 feet in height. The release said deputies also found packaging material, one-and-a-half pounds of marijuana bud and about $1,400 in cash.

No arrests were made, the release said, but the case is being submitted to the Humboldt County District Attorney's Office, along with an arrest warrant requesting charges of cultivation and possession for sale of marijuana.

The sheriff's office is asking anyone with information about this case or related criminal activity to call the sheriff's office at 445-7251 or the sheriff's office crime tip line at 268-2539.